Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that fell onslaught, tall Bob Gardner of Chicago and seasoned Walter Fownes of the home club, and only with difficulty did ponderous Dave Herron at last fix a damper on the ardent cherub, who swore and flung his clubs when a crashing drive soared astray or a tricky pitch was topped...
From crest to crest the "longest" wave was set at 300 yards. (Let golfers picture a drive and a pitch; tennis players, 12 courts laid end-to-end; city-dwellers, 3 1/2 blocks). The time it took one wave to replace another was approximated at 20 seconds. "Longest" waves thus travel 15 yards per second, 40 miles per hour...
...Chinese imprecations, Low drew a revolver from his blouse, began to shoot. The boys scattered, but one James Courte, aged 22, dodged into a doorway, was "cornered" by the enraged Chinese, received one of Low's bullets in the head, another in the heart. A policeman, seeing Courte pitch forward upon his face, broke the back of the fleeing laundryman with a well-aimed bullet...
Then on the 18th (the 108th of the tournament for those two) it was Macfarlane 72 and in the cup; Jones 71 and ten feet away, after a pitch from the pit. Fat Legs smiled, took his stance, struck his ball, missed by inches...
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